defile

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Synonyms: define, debile, decile, refile

Antonyms: define, debile, decile, refile

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Verb

1. To make (someone or something) physically dirty or unclean; to befoul, to soil.
   • To urinate on someone’s grave is an example of a way to defile it.
   • The serial rapist kidnapped and defiled a six-year-old girl.
2. To make (someone or something) physically dirty or unclean; to befoul, to soil.
3. To make (someone or something) morally impure or unclean; to corrupt, to tarnish.
4. To act inappropriately towards or vandalize (something sacred or special); to desecrate, to profane.
   • To urinate on someone’s grave is an example of a way to defile it.
5. To cause (something or someone) to become ritually unclean.
6. To deprive (someone) of their sexual chastity or purity, often not consensually; to deflower, to rape.
   • The serial rapist kidnapped and defiled a six-year-old girl.
7. To deprive (someone) of their sexual chastity or purity, often not consensually; to deflower, to rape.
   • The serial rapist kidnapped and defiled a six-year-old girl.
8. To dishonour (someone).
9. To become dirty or unclean.
10. To cause uncleanliness; specifically, to pass feces; to defecate.

Verb

1. To march in a single file or line; to file.
2. To march across (a place) in files or lines.

Noun

1. A narrow passage or way (originally , one which soldiers could only march through in a single file or line), especially a narrow gorge or pass between mountains.
2. An act of marching in files or lines. A single file of soldiers; any single file.
3. An act of marching in files or lines.
4. A single file of soldiers; any single file.

Verb

1. Synonym of defilade (“to fortify (something) as a protection from enfilading fire”).

Noun

1. An act of defilading a fortress or other place, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.

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